03-07-2010

KURT, STEPHANIE, HANNAH, SARAH & JOEL PLAGENHOEF
MISSIONARIES TO ALBANIA


Our vision statement: To reach lost Albanians who have never heard, plant churches where they have never been, train pastors to go where there are none, and touch the unreached poor with Christ’s compassion. 

Our ministry summary:  The Plagenhoef family is reaching lost Albanians who have never heard, planting churches where they have never been, training pastors where there are none, and touching the poor with Christ’s compassion.  In 1995, Kurt and Stephanie Plagenhoef went to Albania, a nominally Muslim nation formerly ruled by an atheistic and communist regime, to "preach the gospel where Christ was not known."  After language study, they planted a church in the unreached community of Fushe Kruja.  During the war in Kosovo in 1999, they ministered to thousands of Kosovar Albanians fleeing the horrors of war and ethnic cleansing and started a refugee camp.  Afterwards, they oversaw the establishment of a church in Mitrovica, Kosovo, the first evangelical church in the city of over 100,000 people.  In September 2003, the Plagenhoefs began a Bible college in Tirana, Albania in order to train Albanian pastors, multiply churches and reach the lost.  Many Albanians remain unreached without a gospel witness.  Their vision is to help empower Albanian ministers to reach their own people throughout the Balkan region, thus accelerating the gospel and advancing the kingdom of God.